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Contact me for: The Center for Cognitive-Developmental Assessment and Remediation (BGCenter) is composed of independent professionals, specializing with services to internationally adopted children and working in their own offices and at the Center.We work with preschool and school age children (4-18 years old) and their families. We now have psychologists to perform various assessments in 3 major languages: Russian, Chinese and Spanish.We offer a whole range of highly specialized services: from parents' consultations to most complex psychological assessments of children (initial psychological screenings in your child's native language, developmental and cognitive assessments, psycho-educational and neuropsychological evaluations).Our concentration is an assessment of internationally adopted children with FASD, language and cognitive disorders and learning disabilities, children with behavioral and emotional disabilities rooted in the early trauma and deprivation. Special attention is given to accurate diagnosing of these children and their remediation via all-inclusive individualized remedial planning and services available at schools, in the family, and community.At the BGCenter we also perform a combined developmental neuropsychological and educational assessment, most appropriate for children with traumatic and culturally different past who have to switch their language at adoption.Our Russian and Spanish Bilingual Extension teams include various professionals trained to work with internationally adopted children; all specialists are bilingual and understand your child's language.

Boris Gindis, Ph.D. received his doctorate in developmental psychology at the Moscow Academic Research Institute of General and Educational Psychology. He completed his post-doctoral training in School Psychology at the City University of New York (1982-84) and post-doctoral fellowship in cognitive remediation at the Touro College (NY, 1988-90). He is a licensed psychologist in the states of NY and AZ, and a nationally certified bilingual (Russian/English) school psychologist.Dr. Gindis specializes in clinical work and research in the field of international adoption. He is Chief Psychologist at the Center for Cognitive-Developmental Assessment and Remediation located in Suffern, NY and Phoenix, AZ. The Center provides bilingual developmental, neuropsychological and psycho-educational evaluations and other services for internationally adopted children in cooperation with a network of bilingual mental health and education specialists.Dr. Gindis is the principal instructor at the BGCenter Online School http://www.bgcenterSchool.org, where he teaches courses for parents of internationally adopted children and school and adoption agency professionals. Dr. Gindis is the author of over 60 scientific articles, and book chapters, has served as a guest-editor for psychology journals, and has been a keynote speaker at national and international conferences. He is a Full Professor (retired) and former Director of Bilingual Program at Touro College Graduate School of Education and Psychology. To learn more about Dr. Gindis and his clinical service and research in the field of international adoption please visit http://www.bgcenter.com.